December 31, 2006

A quiet one here at our house. Todd and Sophie are sleeping on the bed and it is 9:21 p.m.

I am going through scrapbooking supplies that I haven't looked at in ages and getting rid of stuff, organizing, and pulling things out to start work on an album for my January employee pick.

Sarah and Ben are asleep. Sarah wants me to wake her up a few minutes before midnight so she can watch the ball drop. Will do.

I think we are all FINALLY getting over the stomach virus that has been plaguing us. Todd was the only one who escaped unscathed. Hopefully he's not going to get it. It was one of those ones that hangs on for days. On one hand I'm glad the kids were sick over break so that they didn't miss school but yet they were sick over break so we couldn't enjoy the time off. Oh well. What's gonna do.

Hope everyone enjoys their evening and 2007 brings many good things. Happy New Year! :-)

December 28, 2006

For you scrappers that read this.... I got this idea last year from Ali Edwards - punch squares from your Christmas cards to create a layout.

I made a scrapbook page last year and another one for this year. I save handmade cards and put them in a special album and this is a nice way to showcase the other cards that we get. (click on image for a full view) :-)

December 27, 2006

Ours was nice except for the fact that a nasty stomach virus has been visiting us. Luckily, Christmas day was clear. Sarah came home early from school on Friday because she got sick at school. She was better by Christmas day. Ben got sick at my parent's last night.

I took a break from trying to get pictures of everything and instead enjoyed the time with family. I got the "before" shot.....

And the "after" shot...

And one of Sophie with one of her new toys and her new bed...

One of Sarah with Baby Alive....

And that is it.

Ben's Christmas consisted of just about everything Diego. There's the Barbie hot tub party bus. The Dora cash register. Books and art supplies and a bug microscope and a new Woody and Jesse and about a gazillion other things. I am still getting things out of their packaging and no where near done.

Throw in the new clothing laundry, the regular laundry, the sick boy laundry. Feeling like a salmon swimming upstream right now! I told the kids I needed a break to play with some of my new toys! (And post a blog entry!) :-)

December 20, 2006

I made 25 of these cute little packages for Sarah to take to school on Friday for her Christmas party. The 'poop' is Milk Duds.

(a little side story... I bought about 12 boxes of Milk Duds when I was at the grocery store and as I was checking out and the cashier was scanning box after box of them, I leaned over and conspiratorially said to her, "I reeeeaaaally like Milk Duds." My little joke went unnoticed as she totally ignored me. Oh, well. I thought it was funny.)

When Kinnon Keepsakes had it's QuicKutz event last month this make-n-take was the hit of the evening. To give credit where credit is due, the 'reindeer poop' idea came from Amy Walton and is featured in a gift idea handout from QuicKutz.

Another little project that I worked on last night is for my cousin's wife. She has a poem that is very sentimental to her and she wanted to give the poem to her aunt. She asked if I could come up with something so this is what I did. I have to frame it yet.

I used parchment paper, a Zig Millenium pen and ProArt watercolor pencils.